They're good dogs, Wanderer

We wish we could be as good a boy as Dogmeat is. Not only will he charge into a pack of super mutants without a second thought, should one of those mutants spike a mini nuke down at the ground like a football, Dogmeat will just get right back up about five seconds later and be at your side looking for pets. And you can bet we'll be petting him a lot.

With the Dogmeat Bobblehead every time you give him a good pet his head bobbles. It's like he has found the answer to life's greatest question: who's a good boy? It's him - he is a good boy.